Kate Quilton

Kate Quilton​TV Presenter and Journalist

Kate is a television presenter and journalist. She is best known for presenting a number of Channel 4 television series, including Food Unwrapped.

Whilst at the University of Bristol, she undertook a student equivalent of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, she ate kebabs for one week: breakfast, lunch and dinner. The stunt was picked up by a national paper. Kate began her career in television while a student and worked for both ITV and the BBC. She went on to work as a broadcast journalist in Somerset for the BBC, spending a lot of her time with farmers, and reporting mostly on food.

Kate was one of Channel 4's youngest commissioning editors, a position she held from 2010 until 2014. She has run the online editorial for some of the channel's biggest shows and now manages factual multi-platform commissions including The Food Hospital and Foxes Live. She won the BAFTA for Digital Creativity and the Digital Emmy award in 2014.

Kate resigned as a commissioning editor in 2014 to focus full-time on Food Unwrapped. In 2014, Quilton appeared with Food Unwrapped co-presenter Jimmy Doherty in The World's Best Diet, a one-off show for Channel 4.

In 2015, Kate presented Superfoods: The Real Story, a four-part series for Channel 4. The show returned for a second series of six episodes in 2016. She presented The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money, alongside David Fishwick for four episodes in 2015. In January 2016, she began presenting Tricks of the Restaurant Tradealongside Simon Rimmer. The programme returned for a second series, beginning in November 2016.

In 2017, Kate presented Channel 4's Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special series with Noel Fitzpatrick and Steve Jones. On the Food Unwrapped Christmas special in December 2017, she announced that she was expecting her first child.